Pictures

Santa Baby - Jax was too scared to sit with santa by himself.

We tired to take a family pic in front of our tree, something was wrong with the camera and I had two cranky boys.




Jax LOVED being at the fire station...he couldn't get enough. "What's thaaa...what's theeeese....ohhhhhh....ohhhh.....theeese....theeese.....want that!" When I told that when he got big like uncle nick he could drive a fire truck he said, "woooo" it was super cute! (Jax and Nick share their birthday)



Christmas morning, they both had x-mas hair and the christmas morning haze :)



Jax liked me to take him for rides on this little quad, then he would want to ride on all the others. I think he's gonna love the dirt and be a dirt bike kid






He was reading so serious...I came back to find a mess, but he kept flipping through the books like he was trying to find something.


THE CRUISE

Stacey, me, Megan, Melissa, & Jodi Such a fun group of friends!!
"Watch out 'cause I might seriously hit you with my ball." My ball was out of control, I'm not good at all!

Sorry there isn't a recording and I am kinda glad there isn't. I think I would die if I really heard what I sounded like, I was so embarrassed, it was awful! But I think if another crowd is as drunk as ours was, I would do it again, it made it not so bad, except for my friends who had to cringe through it :) Thanks you guys for not making fun of me :)

I think I am all caught up with pictures, so hopefully in 2009 I will be a lot better at this. Its a new year, that means a new start.

blogging resolution

Yeah, sorry I am really lame at this blogging thing, I sincerely apologize for those of you that check in on us and all you have gotten to see for the last 5 months is the front of our house :)
Needless to say, a lot has passed on our house since that post and funny enough, I have written a couple of post since then but have waited to post them with pictures...i forgot about the posts, haha. Tonight I actually have time to sit down and not have anything specific I need to accomplish before I go to bed so i thought I would work on my new years resolution about keeping our blog updated to keep the ones we care about informed on what we are up here in Washington.

I'll give you the brief 411 on our lives since October :)
- I am 25...yay I guess. - We had the an awesome halloween weekend with my brother, sister in law and their little girl, we still smile about the time we spent with them, while they were here, Jaxon learn how to say "YOSHI!" (which he now thinks is his auntie mel's name :) ) - we had a yummy thanksgiving with Wills family, We babysat 3 different families from November to just before christmas, one family and including Jax we took care of six kids...we thought is was fun and think our goal of 5 will work out just fine...we'll see ;) - I've been pretty successful with selling Pampered Chef - We spent a long and wonderful Christmas in sunny southern california:
- we spent christmas at home in palos verdes, then went to the river to do some dirtbike riding.
My brother Brady took his wife, Will and I on a night ride to some mines out in th middle of nowhere...IT WAS AWESOME!!! Kinda scary, but awesome. On the way back we took a different route and had to do some serious offroading to get back. We had to go through some mud pits and got plastered....IT WAS AWESOME, haha. I wish I had pictures. I think it was the best ride I have ever been on to date, thanks Brady! We were back in PV for new years and then Will and I went on a cruise to Ensenada, Mexico with our friends Stacey and Melissa and their friends Jodi and Megan (as well as their spouses) IT WAS TOO MUCH FUN! It is a definite must do with friends! I was on a game show, the girls and I got funky with it like our Retrix days...we were the MARRIED GIRLS. :) I sang karaoke for the first time in my life, it made me sweat! The girls and I attempted to do piece of me, by Britney...yeah we sucked! Then Will signed the pair of us up for kid rock and Sheryl Crow, "picture"...I was awful :) Thank you friends for such an unforgettable well needed fun weekend!! && double thank yous to my wonderful mom and sister for taking such good care of Jax, he loves and misses them so much! After the cruise Will had to get back to work and I stayed till Saturday to play and hangout. Jax had so much fun playing with his cousin Gavin, they are going to be a naughty pair! Gavin tried to get Jax to make a break outside with him, cute, but naughty :) Gavin was so sweet to Jax and said that "Jaxon can't leave Grammies house!" Friday the day before our flight home, we convinced my brother Nick to watch Jax and my nephew "little Z" while the girls went to Bride Wars...definite chick flick, it was super funny! Then that night everyone came over for games and dinner. I made my mom a game for christmas that we had fun playing; I customized the game PIT and turned it into FACER. my six sibling and I were each a suit of cards and my mom (grammie) and dad (dude) were the bear and bull. Jax and I had a good flight home, I had about 3 hours of sleep and jax was up both flights...i was exhausted. But luckily I have such a sweet boy and we had our own bench on both flights. Jax stood up on the seats the whole time, waved at people and shared his trucks with fellow passengers. He was so cute doing a little bend over crouch to look out the window, "ooooo...whats that....ooooo...chhhhhh....woooow." (I hope that made sense.) Now that we are back I have started teaching and after school class again. Currently I am teaching a babysitting and beauty course, then in a couple of months I will be doing a dance class again. Today I hosted a baby shower for my friend Leslie, she is having a little girl. It was my first time as a hostess, I thought it went well, I had fun :) during preparation this morning the power kept going out, that was so frustrating, my hair looked like shlaw but everything else was ready :) Hopefully I can get pictures from a guest to post....honestly I am going to try super hard to be good at this. :) I think I have covered everything :) If not I'll post about it later.

what color?....now updated

[it's not a very good picture, 'cause I ran out took it really quick and ran back in to post it for you :), I'll take a better one later :)] Thank you all for your opinion, it was a toss up for us and Will made the final vote since it was 50/50. We are happy with the results :)


the front door and shutters are now painted a very dark brown...(bitter chocolate) now it's time for the garage doors, my first instinct was to paint them dark too, I think it would look cool. the other option is to paint them the lighter trim color....what do you think? I have to decide tomorrow :)

SOme recent pics...

Just watching some basketball with my Dad...

Crusin' at the Fair.




Grammie taught me how to use a spoon...Yeah Grammie!




Not feelin' so good, poor baby.



Totally passed out eating lunch last week...haha...was too cute.



Sneaky little mouse in the kitchen, my little Ratatouille



Love his face when he thinks that he shouldn't be doing something, but he's doing it anyway.



He wouldn't hold still, or maybe it's just my non-photo skills, sorry it's blurry but I just love his church outfit he's wearing now.



again, sorry for the blur, but look at those pinchy buns!!



This kid loves to be outside, but I have to be careful 'cause he eats rocks.



Cool rock...



I am amazed this one didn't come out blurry, because I was reaching for him at the same time to stop him.



this is his editorial GQ stare :), so handsome.



Our new piano.

Good bye September...HeLlo OCTOBER??

Well that went super fast...didn't realize that it's been a whole month since the last post...soRry :)
I can't believe September has already passed by and now we are into October, that means it's almost time for another Eastern Washington Winter....SAD... :( But as Pollyanna Harrington would advise me on this seasonal downer...find something to be glad about...I guess that means it's time for vacation planning to go elsewhere...haha. We were so happy to have my cute little Mazzja...(aka: Mom) in town to play in early September. Jax loves his Grammie, it was too cute, every morning he would greet her with a smile and finger point. As predicted, he waited to officially start walking until she came in town. When my mom is in town we enjoy just hanging out at our house, eating cookies, and shopping. ;) Its always a sad day when my mom and I have to say good-bye, we hate that we live so far apart. After my mom left it was hard to get back into the swing of things. Then our sister-in-law, Michelle was in town for a visit with her two cute little ones...Dayton and Daphne. It was fun to have them staying at our house because we got to play all day and get to know each other better. Dayton will be two this month and Daphne is 6 months. Jaxon and Dayton were fun to watch interacting with each other, I think they will be little buddies. Dayton loves to build and Jaxon loves to destroy...haha. Whenever Jaxon would get close to something he was building, Dayton in his cute little voice would say, "nooo jaxon" but it sounded more like, "nooo chicken." Now that we have no visitors I have to get back to my huge TO-Do List.... :( SAD. haha. Don't we all have one...it almost seems never ending...but I guess thats life, what else would we do...what would be our motivator? hmmmm. Anyways.

Will has started Officiating football, I'll have to post a picture of him in his uniform for you all to see, hehe. Will's friend JJ has introduced him into the world of flying remote control airplanes. I got him his first plane for our anniversary because after he flew JJ's, he "Had" to have one, and would pout and talk about it all the time. Then JJ got a bigger one that goes super fast...Will "Had" to have one too, so he could go out and play :) Needless to say Will got his Christmas present already...spoiled. It is pretty cool though. Just a few hours after he bought it he decided , despite the weather conditions, to take it out for its first flight...4 seconds later...crash...he broke the nose. Good thing you can glue and tape it up a few times before you have to buy another body for the plane. Next time Will gasps at the price of a pair of shoes, purse, or home decor item I want...I will remind him of his airplane. :)

Will and I cannot get enough of Jaxon...we love his guts! Despite the fact he is only 14 months old he has such an individual personality...he is such a boy. He loves trucks, destroying stuff, machines, dogs, rocks, dirt, watching basketball, bugs, being outside, and flirting with older girls. Right now he is into waving and saying hello to everyone, walking down the street collecting rocks, pointing and saying "thieese, thieese." He doesn't say too many things clear but he does say: Da or Dada, side (outside), thieese (this), shoe, oh, no-no-no. He loves to dance to classic rock, but not so much to hip hop. He's tall, skinny and has little buns. :) Its funny how naughty little kids are, they know when they are doing something you don't want them to...I try to keep the bathroom doors closed, but within the last two weeks he has managed to get in there the two times I've left a door open. Splish-splash...he loves the toilet. He looks over his shoulder and just laughs and tries to do as much splashing he can do before I can reach him. Naughty &&& GROSS. I wasn't too grossed out because both times were pretty much after I had just cleaned them, but still. GROSS.

News with me...Besides new home decor, I have some cute new shoes, a beautiful coat my mom got me for my birthday ( when I wear it I will take a picture and post b/c it is fabulous!), ohh, I don't think I ever did the post I wanted to about my piano. Yes, I finally got a piano. After two years of watching craigslist I found a piano that I never thought I would get. I couldn't decide whether to settle for an older one or keep saving to buy a new one in a few years. I am soo happy I didn't settle for a few that I was looking at, because I finally a newer one was posted for an awesome price and Will said "go for it!" I was so excited! So, I have a new piano, its a Kohler & Campbell black upright piano and it sounds beautiful. Jaxon loves it too. :) I have recently started selling Pampered Chef. I love selling it, its a fun thing to have on the side and the products are really cool. So if you are in need of any cooking products or want to know more about it you can go to my website @ pamperedchef.biz/sweettooth (I am not allowed to post a link to it on my blog, but if you do want to check it out for those of you who don't know what it is, don't forget to put the www. before it ;) )
Somethings up with my camera and the usbport so I have to post some updated pics tomorrow...I promise. ;)

sMooTH LeGs...YEAH!

So for the last four years of my life I have been shaving my legs with the mens razor Mach3 because Will used to use it, but now has an electric razor, so I have been trying to use up our huge costco pack of refills. (that was a total run on, but you can do whatever on blogs...right...haha) Anyways, I was always frustrated that I couldn't keep smooth legs for very long if I successfully achieved them at all with that razor. Finally I ran out of refills and had to go buy something new...as I stood in the razor aisle at good old Walmart, I was apprehensive about which one to buy, it was almost overwhelming :) I decided to get the one with the most blades (more blades, closer shave...right?) I proceeded to buy the Venus Embrace with 5 blades. Also I decided to treat myself to some new shaving cream since I was also trying to use up the costco pack of mens Gillette shaving cream ( I thought I liked the smell of the guys stuff :/ ) Let me tell you...the New Satin Care Alluring Avocado smells sooooo good! As I was shaving my legs the other day I could not believe how smooth my legs were getting and how much fun I had at such a mundane task. I started to sing..."Man I feel like a woman" in the shower and came out bouncing and prancing around to show off my fancy SMOOTH legs to Will.

JULY

Jax and I have been gone most of July and a lot has happened, hence I haven't posted forever...not that I am very good at being consistent at posting new and exciting things :)
Within the last few weeks Jax has three new teeth, which makes the total right now seven and he is crawling all over the place discovering that he can get himself from point A to point B all by himself if he wants to. It is such a pleasure to see the look of satisfaction on his face when he knows that he is doing something all on his own. Something he taught to himself is to make the sputtering sound for trucks and tractors...I guess it's just embedded into little boys DNA. :)
We spent a week down at the River house and Jaxon loves to splash and kick, I am so pleased that he loves the water. Its amazing how liberating it is to do things you love to do after almost 1 1/2 years of not being able to do something. I love the feeling of being pulled behind the boat waterskiing or wakeboarding, I love the anticipation of catching air on the wakeboard and hoping that I will land in one piece. :) It was a fun trip hanging out with the family! Jaxon loved playing with his cousins, its always fun watching and observing how Jaxon and his little cousin Sadie interact with each other. They are TOO cute!! We spent extra time in California with Grammie and Dude...aka...my mom and dad. Grammie taught Jax how to say "sit"...Jaxon loved to spend most of his time standing in front of the screen door watching Roxy (their Jack Russel) jump and run around. It was too cute to hear is little voice sweetly utter..."sss...sssit." While we were down there he also said , "Hi," for the first time, again...too cute. :) haha. Before we left California we had a July Birthday party for all the July birthdays in the family...Nick (brother), Kirra (niece), Gavin (newphew), & Jaxon. Nick and Jaxon share the same day. It was sad to leave because time passes too quickly while I'm down there, and too slowly till I can make it down again. It was strange to come back home because we were gone for so long, I kinda felt like what did I used to do and how do I get myself back into the swing of things? have you ever felt that way? hmmm...its kinda like after I graduated college and I wasn't doing anything, it took a long time to rid myself of the Sunday night stress...the feeling of there's something that I should be worried about and what am I forgetting. :) anyways....
SO we got back and started a swimming class that my friend Kimberly is teaching. Jaxon loves it. It startles him a little bit when I dunk him, but he is over it really quickly and goes back to jabbering, splashing and kicking.
Wednesday was Jaxon's 1st Birthday!! Such a big boy! It was fun, we Barbecued and of course Jax had his own piece of cake. At first Will was apprehensive about decorations...and I told him that even though he doesn't really know whats going on, he'll look at pictures and appreciate the memories we tried to create for him. Decorations aren't that expensive and they just make it more fun! :) Duh! Although, after it was all set up...Will really liked it and said that it was definitely worth it. :)






Kirra, Gavin, Nick & Jaxon - July Birthday's
















Jaxon was excited to see his Dad @ the Spokane Airport, he missed him alot!
















Birthday Boy!